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Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

Klistvud wrote:

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 16:46:47 je Klistvud napisal(a):

Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a):

Klistvud wrote:

Howdy, fellow Debianites,
I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate 
into /

proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run
these
browsers with gksu or su, however, they never let me into /proc 
--
if I 
try to enter there, they just stop responding. Ideas, anyone?


Try something like sudo emacs/vim/$EDITOR /proc/cpuinfo and see if

it

works.


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I don't have sudoers configured, but gksu vim /proc/cpuinfo opens the file in vim instantly. I can of course access /proc easily from a root
terminal too; it's just browsing/navigating with superuser permissions
that hangs... 
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Regards,

Klistvud
Certifiable Loonix User #481801


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Update: apparently, the browser doesn't really "freeze". I bumped into an instance of Gnome-Commander which I'd forgotten to kill, after 2-3 hours, and it actually was displaying the contents of the /proc subtree. I clicked on a random subdir and it opened instantly. However, when I attempted to browse back to the parent level, Gnome- 
Commander froze yet again...
Works fast and OK with 'kdesu krusader' so it's Gnome's fault somewhere. File a bug.
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